Students will create their own restaurant. By combining economics principles and math concepts by interpreting data to drive their decisions as business owners.
Resources provides information about Rivtak, a business created by an North Carolina native.
Students can learn about Caleb Bradham who was the creator of Pepsi.
Students will learn about the creation of Pepsi and the development of the company.
This article, which includes videos and brainstorming, contains ideas to help students explain why people become entrepreneurs.
This lesson allows students to develop an understanding of basic entrepreneurship, understand skills needed to be an entrepreneur in business and life, and understand the basic goal setting and team work skills.
Students can learn about the Fur Trade surrounding Fort Union in Montana during the 19th Century. They will learn about the economic impact and the relations between the whites and the Native Americans.
With this lesson, students learn about Mary Kay Ash, an example of an entrepreneur who found great success in the free-market system. Students learn how economic concepts are related.
With this lesson, students learn about business and economics in the free enterprise system focusing on individuals, such as Milton Hershey, Wallace Amos, and Sam Walton.
Students will learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur. They will be able to explain why people become entrepreneurs and how they just need to identify a need, come up with a plan to fill the need, and to take action.
Learners are given advice on how they can earn extra money by becoming an entrepreneur. Learners will select three businesses they believe can be successful for them and support their ideas with reasons why. Also they will create a flyer promoting what they are selling.
In this lesson, students learn about the traits and characteristics of entrepreneurs.
Students learn about Mary Kay Ash, an example of an entrepreneur who found great success in the free-market system. Students learn how economic concepts are related.
Students can learn about Hugh MacRae who developed special grazing techniques in the mountains of North Carolina and served as Secretary of Agriculture for two different Presidents during the early 20th Century.
In this lesson, students are introduced to four ways people get money-they find it, win it, receive it as a gift or earn it. Students explore allowances and doing work for pay as a source of extra money to buy something they want. They also differentiate between earned and unearned income.
In this lesson, students learn the definition of entrepreneurship and are introduced to the characteristics of entrepreneurs. Students are asked to apply these characteristics to themselves and people in their own communities by completing a story pyramid and then writing a short story that demonstrates how entrepreneurial activity can contribute to higher standards of living.
These questions discuss the economic concepts discussed in One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference.
In this lesson, students are given the opportunity to identify risks and rewards of entrepreneurship and distinguish between entrepreneurs who start a business to produce a good or provide a service.
This resource explains how to encourage students to make changes by becoming social entrepreneurs.
In this lesson, students will define entrepreneur, identify the benefits and costs and risks and rewards of entrepreneurship, and reflect on the life of Steve Jobs and identify his entrepreneurial characteristics.